Danny Ruta

Clinical Artificial Intelligence Lead | Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Danny is the AI Clinical Lead at the Guy’s Cancer Centre, which is partnering with the newly established AI Evaluation Unit at the King’s Technology Evaluation Centre (KiTEC), King’s College London, on the clinical evaluation of AI technology in cancer care. Danny has formerly held posts as Director of Public health for the London Borough of Lewisham and the City of Newcastle, and as Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Health Services Research at Newcastle University and Dundee University. Danny has developed national clinical guidelines for the NHS in Scotland, conducted large randomised trials, and developed Patient Reported Outcome measures recommended by the US FDA, used with patients across the NHS in England and throughout the world.

Visa Honkanen

Director of Strategic Development | HUS, Helsinki - Uusimaa Health Care District

Visa Honkanen MD, PhD, Chief Digital Officer, is responsible on the digital disruption and lean turn-around at the Helsinki University Hospital.  His work focuses on digitalization, ehealth, and artificial intelligence development for the clinical use. His research interest has been in clinical studies and experimental statistics. For his work on the ehealth, he received the Finnish healthcare influencer of the year award in 2016. Visa Honkanen has background in pediatrics and pediatric rheumatology. He did his pediatric rheumatology training at the Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, Canada. He still teaches and practices pediatric rheumatology.

Per Karlsson

Chief Physician | Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Per Karlsson holds a position as full Professor of Oncology at Sahlgrenska Academy, combined with a position as Senior Consultant in Oncology and Chief Physician at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. As Chief Physician he is a medical adviser in the management group of Sahlgrenska University Hospital and responsible for the quality program and for introducing direct communications between patients representatives and the management group in a newly constructed form called “Patient forum”

Marte Lauvsnes

Manager, Advisory and Planning Department | Sykehusbygg/Norwegian Hospital Construction Agency

Marte Lauvsnes is manager for the department for advisory and early phase planning. Educated as intensive care nurse and worked with hospital planning all over Norway and also abroad in Helsebygg, SINTEF, Medivi and Sykehusbygg for the last 24 years. Marte chair the European Health Property Network and is in the program committee and jury for the European Health Design Conference in London each year.

Tarja Laitinen

Director of Research | Tampere University Hospital

Dr Tarja Laitinen is the Director of Research at Tampere University Hospital since 2018. Before that she has held several positions in the academia and biotech industry: Chief Physician and Professor in Respiratory Diseases at Turku University Hospital, and the CSO and co-founder of the BioHealthCareInformatics Company Geneos Ltd. She has actively participated in the development of Biobank Research and Clinical Informatics in Finland for several years.

Tomas Borgegård

Innovation Program Manager | Karolinska University Hospital

Tomas is currently working as Innovation manager at Karolinska University Hospital. With more than ten years in pharma R&D and for the last eight years working in public Healthcare Tomas has deep insight into the entire R&D and Innovation processes from both industry and public sector. In the role of Innovation manager Tomas has established and supported partnerships and collaborations between industry, academia, and healthcare, in areas such as cell therapy, radiology, digital transformation and AI. Since the last five years with a focus on Innovation procurement and Innovation strategy to accelerate co-development and clinical implementation of new technologies. In 2017 Tomas initiated the project ‘Integrated AI Diagnostics’ (I-AID) which specifically aimed at accelerating implementation of AI in public healthcare.

Marko Rauhala

Managing Director, Nordic Health & Public Services | Accenture

Marko leads Accenture Nordic’s Health and Public Service practice which partners with leading government and healthcare (private and public) organizations to innovate and deliver digital solutions to provide better citizen experience, increase efficiency and deliver better outcomes for citizens and patients. Marko is passionate about how Health and Public Services can be transformed by digital technologies and how they can improve the quality of life for citizens and patients and at the same time make services more affordable and accessible. He emphasizes the role of analytics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

Teija Koskinen

Managing Director | Medikumppani

Teija is a transformational leader who is inspired by the people, their wellbeing and personal growth, a leader who also inspires the people to receive their goals.

With an experience of almost two decades on leadership within various industries such as private banking, IT, homecare and now healthcare staffing, Teija is convinced that staff wellbeing provides the firmest foundation for strong and sustainable business growth. This ambassador of emotional intelligence in leadership and healthcare strives for healthier and more balanced work life adding value at every encounter successfully.

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Lasse Rousi

CEO | Medixine

Lasse Rousi joined Medixine as CEO in 2019, bringing digital healthcare market expertise and broad international experience. In his earlier positions, he has been a respected leader, achieving significant business results. He has worked as Director of CGI’s Consulting Services for Welfare and Healthcare, where he gained a robust understanding of the demands of healthcare in Finland and Europe.

He has long-standing experience in software development management and delivering customer projects. He also has leadership and development experience from two startup companies, prior to leading Medixine.

Päivi Metsäniemi

Chief Medical Officer | YTHS

Päivi Metsäniemi is a health care specialist from Helsinki and works as the chief physician of the Student Health Care Foundation (YTHS). She believes that high-quality and effective healthcare can only be achieved when professionals themselves are able to influence the content and the way they do their work. A well-implemented digitalization supports this, but it will not be possible without the good of professionals and information systems and service providers. Thus, the continuous development of dialogue is one of Päivi's passions.

Lisse-Lotte Hermansson

Chief Scientific Officer | BCB Medical

Making health data come alive with digital solutions for over hundred disease specific patient monitoring systems. Successful track record in business development and over 20 years of global life science experience with EFPIA HTA WG and Orphan WG 2007-2011 and chaired MedTech EU (ex-EDMA) HTA and CDx WG 2011-2016. Worked with due diligence, HEOR and health policy globally. M.Sc Econ. at Helsinki School of Economics in Finland and M.Sc Health Economics at Karolinska in Sweden.

Tuomas Tikka

Senior Software Architect | BCB Medical

As a software architect, responsible for organizing the data that BCB Medical collects into a standard and documented form, enabling efficient secondary use of information by the Data and Analytics department, such as reports, research projects and machine learning. Also responsible for the roadmap of this platform, and participates in designing and implementing the supporting technical architecture through agile pilots in this constantly evolving domain.